SPRINGFIELD, N.J. - First Tiger Woods needed some late heroics to avoid an early exit from the PGA Championship. Now he has completed 72 holes and can't get away.

Whatever it takes, as long as he still has a chance to add a third major title for the year.

"You don't know what can happen out there," Woods said after Sunday's 2-under-par 68 left him two shots behind the still-playing Phil Mickelson when play was suspended.

"The guys are having a hard time out there because the golf course is getting faster and drier and the pins are brutally difficult."

Woods still hopes to add the Wanamaker Trophy to the Masters and British Open championships he won earlier this year. Despite his 10 major titles, golf's top-ranked player never has won one from off the pace.

He came closest at the PGA three years ago, when he chased after Rich Beem with a 67 but fell shy by a stroke. A similar finish on Monday wouldn't leave him feeling any better.

"Anytime you lose, you're not going to be happy," he said. "If you're happy losing, there's something wrong with you."

Woods completed four rounds at 2-under 278, firing three rounds in the 60s after Thursday's opening 75. It took a birdie at Friday's 18th hole for him to sneak inside the cut line.

He never got into below-par numbers until Sunday's final two holes, when he birdied each of Baltusrol's closing par-5s.

Woods once again tried to reach the green in two at the 650-yard 17th and this time overdid it. Making a beeline straight at the flag, his 2-iron screamer drew a chorus of "aahs" when it hit perhaps five yards short of the pin, but had no chance of holding the green.

It rolled all the way to the back fringe, leaving him a long chip that he coaxed within two feet.

He missed again with an 8-iron from the rough at the 554-yard 18th, but chipped on and drained a 12-footer to get to 2 under.

Woods appeared to bury his chances when he bogeyed two of his first three holes after driving into the rough.

It could have gotten worse, until what he called a "miracle fluke shot" turned around his day.

Woods went awry again at the 505-yard seventh hole, pulling his drive left into some bushes, forcing him to take an unplayable lie. Now lying two, his approach bounded into the greenside rough, uphill from a bunker.

Taking a long time to examine his options, Woods finally took his stance and lofted a chip that bounced twice and plopped into the cup for a hard-way par.

"It should have been 20 feet past the hole, and it went in," he said. "So I got lucky there."

Woods stayed bogey-free from that point on, recording birdies at Nos. 8 and 14 to set up his closing flourish on the par-5s.

"I thought if I could somehow go 4-3, post 3 under, I was looking pretty good," he said.

Instead, he's at 2 under with plans for a cameo appearance at Baltusrol's clubhouse on Monday morning.

Just in case.

"There's free lunch," he quipped.